What are you currently reading thread

I liked it but I'd never read it again. I'm not hot on fiction because few writers can tell a story without feeling the need to stop the narrative to describe everything and Life... has to be one of the most extreme examples of that. Certainly that I've come across.

Rushdie has always sounded like a sophisticated Andy McNabb to me. I've never read anything by him, but the books that have been recommended to me sound just like something McNabb would write.

i do, yeah. it definitely wouldn't have had the same effect had it been linear. have you read the follow up? closing time. it's not as good and waffles on a bit but definitely not as bad as the reviews say.

Staring into the Sun was brilliant. I wouldn't say it was particularly revelatory. There was nothing in there that I hadn't entertained myself, but reading the thoughts of his patients, himself and 'greats' like Epicurus and Nietzsche was surprisingly comforting. I was just impressed with the book as a whole - how he writes, thinks and his experiences with the deaths of his mentors. The deaths of Rollo May and the lonely guy (I don't have the book to hand so I can name him) who Yalom flew out to see, where particularly poignant. Also the simplest of things like his "here and now" questions in his sessions where some of the strongest points of the book. It's also been a bit of an introduction to philosophy, which I'd refused to entertain until now.

I'm about halfway through Man's Search for Meaning and I'm liking it. I do kind of feel a bit bored by it though. I guess the horrors of the concentration camps are a bit lost on me these days after years of films and horror stories. I am looking forward to the second part of the book though.

I went berserk at the bookstore today. Things were going for cheap, so I picked up quite a few. Most importantly, I got Catch 22. I'll dive into that one after Hitchens' Letters to a Young Contrarian, which looks like a short and fun read.

It's the book that coined the phrase, right? It's like a third dimension to irony/coincidence, so I'll probably like it. My concern is that I haven't read much fiction that I didn't like. So I'd still thank you for giving me something to Troll you with.

yeah, coined the phrase. haven't read it in a while but i remember it being genuinely amazing. also art garfunkel being in the film of it inspired the simon and garfunkel song 'the only living boy in new york'. fun fact.